I learned that star Richard Carlson wasn’t such a nice guy in real life. I learned that Natural Vision, the original company behind the first wave of 3-D cameras, wanted a percentage of the profits from any film that used its equipment, so the resourceful camera department at Universal built their own 3-D rig. I learned so much about this seminal film that I did not know before. The book’s coverage of It Came from Outer Space is as exhaustive as it is entertaining. Because the Terrors book covers only eight films (the first half of the 1950s there’s a follow-up book in the works), because there exists more plentiful production records for the ’50s films, and because Weaver has interviewed so many more participants, each film gets a whopping 135 pages devoted to it. It’s the follow-up to his earlier, indispensable Universal Horrors, which discusses every horror film made by Universal Studios during its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s. Lately I have been enjoying the book Universal Terrors by Tom Weaver. Blazing across the night sky and sailing over the desert comes one of the best and most influential science-fiction films of the 1950s!
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